Skulls, Smoke And Spirits: Thai Ceremony For The Unclaimed Dead

Source: International Business Times

Hospitals hand unidentified bodies and those with no-one to give them appropriate last rites to local foundations AFP Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed by Thais of Chinese descent to give a dignified funeral to the unclaimed dead. In Thailand, hospitals hand unidentified bodies and those with no-one to give them appropriate last rites to local foundations.